Artist Trading Cards for swaps on flickr

 Dollies made for Let's Swap ATCs flickr group, same two images on one card swap

 Lil' Sweetheart made for Monthly Themed ATC flickr group, June theme-Vintage

 Prim Bunny made for Let's Swap ATCs flickr group, Primitive swap

Kitty, Kitty, Kitty made for Let's Swap ATCs flickr group, Watercolor swap

Artist Trading Cards for Swaps

Top to Bottom: Lil' Lady B, Funky Bird with Crown, Lil' Princess, and Top Hat..done for swap on AFA-Artist's Choice. Last ATC (collage) Sense and Sensibility quote ATC for Monthly Themed
ATC flickr group. November's theme is Jane Austen. I chose to use a quote from the her book Sense and Sensibility-"Sense will always have attractions for me." Elinor Dashwood, Ch. 10.

Altered PostCard

This is an altered postcard I made for a swap I am in on Flickr. I used a vintage postcard that has actual writing on the back from 1909 I believe. The center image is original to the card, I added the rest. I used a decorative paper napkin with roses on it to cover the white background of the card, then I added the images of the two other female images on opposite corners. I also added the brighter yellow roses, and the shoe on the upper right corner. Then I outlined the edges of the roses on the decorative paper napking with glitter glue. Lastly I put the green little gems on the vintage image in the center.

Bees wax artist trading cards

I finally got to use some bees wax in my collage ATCs. I have had the bar of bees wax for a couple of years wanting to use it in my art cards. It was a learning experience, but I would do it again! The top card is the only one that doesn't have bees wax on it.

Top to bottom: Le Soleil (no bees wax), Renaissance (a gift for Crae's on Flickr), Prim, Keys to the Past, Flora

Artist Trading Cards

Top to Bottom: Sister's, Seamstress, Piano School, Taking in the Sites, and City Walk.

I really had fun making Piano School (The name of the school says it all) used ad from an 1800's magazine, and image from a vintage childrens magazine; Taking in the Sites cracks me up because not only is the lumber jack and pumpkin (yeah a pumpkin :) taking in the city sites, but so is the mouse as he see's the odd couple in the window! City Walk, hey a bunny can take a walk in the city! Anyway, I like how Taking in the Sites and City Walk have a 3-d look to them.

Paris Darlings

This series is titled Paris Darlings, made for a flickr group.

First Artist Trading Cards of 2011

These are my latest ATCs or artist trading cards as they are called. I posted them to my flickr page.
From top to bottom: Par Avion (made for a trade in the Monthly Themed ATC group on flickr. The theme for Jan.was "Anything Postal", we are assigned partners each month to trade with), Queen in Flight, the Child, Love Collage, Je ne sias. Thanks for looking! :)

Transfer techniques on artist trading cards

The top three artist trading cards were done using the clear packing tape transfer technique. The last two artist trading cards were done using the gesso transfer technique.

Altered Note Card box

An altered box. This box once held note cards then I altered it with a vintage eclectic theme.
The letters at the bottom were wooden beads with letters on them, they spell out "play time", I distressed them and added wires to them with small paper hearts...can't see them very well in the photo. Too many other details to speak of, but I sure did enjoy making it.

Vintage Clown

Vintage Clown artist trading card made using color pencils.

Altered Box

This is an altered box I made for my friend. It was my first altered box. It use to contain note cards and envelopes.

I have to say that it was a little bit of a chellenge since I had to figure out how I wanted it to close. It took me two attempts to do the outside of the box. First I had painted it and distressed it, but wasn't very happy with it. So I altered that :) and did the outside finish that it has now.

I was happy with how the inside turned out, and didn't make any real changes to it when I finished it.

My First Fabric PostCards

These are my first two ever fabric post cards I have made. I was really having fun making them. I forget how soothing it is to just sew.